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† deˈcerp, v. Obs.
Pa. pple. decerped, decerpt.
[ad. L. dēcerp-ĕre to pluck off, crop, cull, f. de- I. 2 + carpĕre to pluck, etc. With the pa. pple. decerpt, cf. L. dēcerpt-us. (Cf. discerp: the two were often confused.)]
trans. To pluck off or out; to extract, excerpt.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxiv, Tulli saieth..Mannes soule, beinge decerpt or taken of the portion of diuinitie called Mens, may be compared with none other thinge..but with god hym selfe. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. Ded. I. 2 Out of whom I decerped and chose (raptim) sondry proper and commendable Histories. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 255 Plums, decerped from..different trees. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 373 That God was a Mind passing through the whole Nature of things, from whom our Souls were, as it were, decerped or cut out.
¶ for discerp, to pull to pieces, divide.
1531Elyot Gov. i. ii, Howe this most noble Isle of the worlde was decerpt and rent in pieces. |